Jan 1, 2010

Introduction to Find 815

"For Sam Thomas, times have never been so tough. His partner, Sonya, was a flight attendant aboard missing Oceanic Flight 815. Sam, a talented IT technician for Oceanic Airlines, is determined to find out what happened. But Oceanic would rather be ‘flying again’. They have abandoned the official search for Flight 815. Sam is distraught, afraid he will never have answers. But then he receives a strange email... Sam has followed the mysterious message from the Maxwell Group to Jakarta and has located the Christiane I. It is just about to embark on an expedition to an undisclosed location. But getting on board might not be as easy as Sam thinks... Sam's desire to leave the Christiane I at the next port comes across an unexpected obstacle, leaving him curious about the identity of Talbot’s employers. Sam's attempt to outwit Talbot and pinpoint the exact position of the coordinates brings unexpected results. Sam's determination to reach the mysterious coordinates risks the lives of all aboard the Christiane I. Will Sam find answers? Or has he made a life threatening mistake? "

Welcome to the new section of the site which will attempt to keep track of the new Lost ARG - Find 815. If you would like to join the Find 815 team, please feel free to email me and I'll get you hooked up.

What's the time line for this ARG? Is supposed to be happening just months after the crash or concurrently time today?

The reason why I ask is Sam says in the first video the flight crashed on "September 22nd" with no mention of the year. That tells me that the video occurs that same year -- 2004.

Also could this whole thing lead up to the finding of the flight 815 being found in the trench like Naomi says later. So maybe this all occurs between the crash and the events of TMFT (Cooper tell Locke they found the plane in a trench) which happen around day 80-82. So maybe the search only went on for two months and Sam helps them find the plane a few weeks after that.

DARKUFO, do you know what the 'action' required is in Chapter One? My progress bar at find815.com shows I've done everything so far except take some unnamed action. Got a clue what it might be? Do you have to win that bagpacking game? Or is it something else?

you have to find the 4 clues in the picture on the laptop. Zoom in to the mole, the left part of her left iris (left, compared to her), the small crease beneath her right her and the diagonal part part of her bangs.

hi from greece! i think i have a problem.yesterday i finished the photo quiz and the email. so today i logged in to continue with todays activities.but when i press continue story it shows me the first video again and then the photograph an so on. any help??? HAPPY NEW YEAR! (cookies are enabled because in my progress yesterdays activities are green)

Folks have noted the Thomas Killen site, seemingly... a part of the game. He says he's a student at the Queensland University of Technology, in Australia obviously.

If you read the Hoodlum.com.au web site, Who We Are, Nathan (who is supposedly in charge of maintaining the-maxwell-group.com), you see that he too graduated from the Queensland University of Technology. This makes me think both sites are in-game...

ok not really sure where to post this or even if its relevant its 2.51 am here [london] and im probably behind everyone but when you unlock the s4 clue the oceanic number is888 548 0034like i say you probably already have it but i thought id post just in case:)

I found the following!!! At the end of the second challenge you get this phone number 888 548 0034 oceanic hotline I cant call because I live in Mexico but if someone can tell me what happens I will be gratefull!!!!

I don't know if this is of any importance, but I have just seen the Flickr page on Find815.com where people upload their photos of the T shirts. It has been updated to include pictures of Gerald DeGroot and some other man. I hope this is a clue!

Hi I was looking at the wierd mail and found this "word" egrg eqrhrtnm that reapeats a lot!!! It cought my attention because the first word can translate into greg but the next one I dont have a clue!!! It mabe nothing!!!

hey guys i'm kinda new to this i just found this site today, but i was looking at the page source screen for flyoceanicair and at the bottom it said google analytics snippets (in green all the way at the bottom) i looked it up and apparently its used to track who visits your web sites, so i'm not sure it has anything to do with th game but i thought it was interesting

sprtzgrl...some trackers are common...it think this blog has two...google analytics and statcounter...but StCntr has an 'invisible' mode so you my only find that encrypted...but they're both normal...i think... ;)

My name is Sam Thomas.And up until a few days ago I worked for Oceanic Airlines.I was an IT technician.My partner Sonya also worked for Oceanic.She was a flight attendant.Sonya was on board Flight 815 when it...disappeared.Oceanic have recently decided to abandon the search for 815.Despite this I won't stop looking.You see I need to know what happened.And if I'm honest with myself this is part of the reason why.She's a beauty isn't she.Two months from now was to be the8th anniversary of the day Sonya and I met.And my plan was to get down on one knee,which would have really embarrassed her,give her this ring and ask her to marry me.And that would have made up for all the times I could have.But I didn't.Tomorrow I'm flying to Jakarta.I'm going to hitch a ride aboard a salvage boat called the Christiane Iwhich is looking for a shipwreck somewhere in the deepest waters on the planet.And I'm doing this because I received a coded messagein a photograph from a group called 'MAXWELL'.It might seem crazy but to tell you the truth I feel like crap,I can't sleep and I'm not going to just sit aroundwaiting to feel good again.I've had enough of waiting until it's too late.

Hey Dark :)I dunno if its important or not but on the flickr album there are two pics of DeGroot. Dont know if some fan added them or not but its worth a while (me thinks)http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/5549/degroot1mm3.jpg

Well, I've copied the dot to Microsoft Word en changed it to 'Wingdings'(lettertype).I've got a standard version, where there are 3 different wingdings.Changing the dot will get:- a pictogram of tappages.- a pictogram of a mailbox- a pictogram of an arrow pointing 45 degrees southeast.

Dark, Im sorry your so busy too lol, over at LP we are having a fun yet craaazy time with all this.

Our daily clues list may help you guys out though, on the wiki we chronicle as much info as it comes out as possible, sometimes from blogs like yours, sometimes through our forum etc. But its a pretty easy system, click a date on the calendar and youll see the clues and new content for that day :)

regarding the 'dot' on the-maxwell-group site. If you right-click it, then select 'this frame >', then the 'show only this frame' option, you end up at http://www.find815.com/TMG/index.html ... i think it is just a repository or work space that was not meant for public consumption... but who knows?

I hope this hasn't been answered before, I haven't seen it anywhere, though: On the Maxwell Group site it says that servers are down until Feb. 1, 2008 at 12:08:15 am (or 00:08:15) UTC. Which in reality it means Jan 31, 2008 at 7:08:15 pm EST which is 2 hours before the premiere right?(I read somewhere it was going to start at 9:00 pm EST). And, if I'm not mistaken, they said that the game was set to end 2 hours before the premiere. Does this mean that we will not get the username and password until the very end of this game?

new email and websiteanyone notice you can type addys into the 'browser' on sam's laptop? i've tried the-maxwell-group.com, but nothing happens when i hit enter, if i click on the address bar it just reloads the initial page

I'm stuck on Chapter 1 picture. I've tried magnifying and clicking, but left click on the 4 items doesn't get me anywhere. When I hover on the laptop picture, my only real option is to click and drag. What am I doing wrong?

I don't know if this has been pointed out already but it looks like the ring box on Sam's desk moved a little bit, as if it was picked up and put back down. Also, the writing that seems to be overlayed on his desktop (formulas, drawings, etc) is getting clearer.

John F- The ring totally moved, also the case differs from the first video we see it in (as well as the desk). Those show a plain white lining. But in the as-yet-unreleased video posted on this site yesterday, there seemed to be some kind of logo/writing on the lining.

On the maxwell group site, the compass is backwards. Clockwise it reads North, West, South, East; when it should read North, East, South, West. Also, the measurements above that go in 30 degree increments, but the second number is 75 degrees. It goes 0, 30, 75 instead of 0, 30, 60. I don't know if this is important, but it seems like a weird thing to get wrong.

I think the HD logo when sam opens the closet door is a clue. If you go to ABC's LOST page on the left is a box with pictures of different media that says, "learn more". When you click on it a box pops up and there's an HD logo. I don't see the point of this and I think in the future there will be a video there.

Both the www.flyoceanicair.com.au and www.flyoceanic.com.au domains are registered to Hoodlum Active (www.hoodlum.com.au) - an Australian production company. They're based out of Brisbane, which might explain why Sam's house is obviously a "Queenslander" by the interior walls and ceiling. You just don't get those sorts of houses in Sydney.

I found something!! Ive been researching the maxwell group and I found out that a man name James maxwell has a set of four equations relating to electromagnetism called Maxwell's equations, or "The Maxwell Group". Heres the page i found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell's_equations

Someone wrote about them in a book called: Modern Differential Geometry in Gauge Theories: Maxwell Fields.Heres a google book linkhttp://books.google.com/books?id=_2Vkji2d4tIC&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&dq=%22the+maxwell+group%22&source=web&ots=xMC1wO2zr2&sig=zQz3NxlQSNUkfHEFOps821UW5Qg

Hey is there any other way to join w/out clicking contact? It keeps trying to send an email from my work Outlook that I don't have access to anymore? Thanks :) I've searched everywhere and it doesn't look like anyone has written about the letter with the number I sent in anywhere.

hi! i don't know if is a clue...but...if in the sam's note (manifest) click in the left eye(the right eye has a different colour of the left eye!) of kate and in the right eye of james...and zoom the eye, at the second zoom i have fond this 'image'...it is the same for you? http://rapidshare.de/files/38229428/Immagine_4.png.html

It appears that both Kate and Sawyer have a brown and a green eye. Kate's left is brown and her right is green.Sawyer's left is green and right is brown.

And yes, zoom 3 times to see a blank screen. But zoom again and you get another zoom of the picture itself.

I think this has not been noticed before.

Maybe it's a hint that, in season 4, there's somthing going on between them (other than we already know)?Than maybe is the fact, that only Jin, Sun and Sayid are looking to be polaroids also a hint like that ?

I had seen the zoom blank page affect, but thought it was a glitch, nice catch with the different eye colors. In the episode Dave in season 2 Dr Brooks takes a polaroid of Hurley to show that Dave is not real at Santa Rosa. Could it be that Sun, Jin, & Sayid all show up there for some kind of "treatment"

it is strange also the right eye of locke...has different colour and i see that all this eye with different colours has the around red signs (around the eye of locke there are some strange red signs..in the corner of the eye...)..mah..perhaps it will be some new clues from future chapters of the game...

...latest email implies that we should search for "black rock" ... googled "black rock shipwreck" and got this site about shipwrecks off Australia (Victoria) and this Lost-vocab-heavy text:

http://www.heritage.vic.gov.au/page.asp?ID=118

The Cerberus (1926) at Black Rock, and Clonmel (1841) Port Albert zones have unlit marker buoys. The Will o' the Wisp (1853) zone at Swan Island is not marked but the zone is in a controlled defence area. The William Salthouse near Pope's Eye, Port Phillip is not marked by a buoy.

Random Question: Anyone have a lead or any grounded speculation as to the 'overlay' image on Sam's desk (in both chapters 1&2)? It's been driving me batty, I know there is probably someone out there that can isolate the 'overlay'. There maybe something new to work with in it?

Sorry folks - it's not really an Easter Egg - it's an actual boat that's moored in the Brisbane river, which looks to be where they filmed that sequence. (Hoodlum is based in Brisbane, and I live a couple of km from the river)

For more info, check out http://www.trailersailerplace.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1612&sid=9c8bd8300304843ead3b005ab6f5417d

What if the billboards themselves are not the most important thing, but surrounding items? For example the Portland Billboard is above the Casa Bella Granite & Marble. The Sydney billboard has Airport Central in the background.

What if we find out the order of the flights according to what the billboards say - starts in LA and then the words in the backgrounds equal a phrase?

I think that they should do a new Lost Experience every time a new season is beginning and ending: all the hardcore fans are working on the game, and nobody we'll do a new lostfan108's "distubing moment"..I mean: give us a page full of non-sense numbers, a strange image and some html code, and we'll be sleepless for a lot of time.. :)

Hey Dark! Greeting from Italy!In the last mail the Sam recieved, I've notice something interesting...Some numbers are written with a different kind of color...Some numbers are grey! The numbers are: 1,1,1,8,7,4.Maybe these numbers are related with the Maxwelle Group website.

I saw a piece of paper sticking out of Sam's backpack in the video when he was on the boat heading to Christiane I. I zoomed in 4x and the screen then went to a redish black. Other spots on the picture were fine when zooming in. This is similar to zooming in on a few pics in Sam's manifest. Is there something hidden here on his backpack?

it makes sense for the game taking place in the lead up to season 4 start...why would sam wait 3 years to set up find815? or oceanic to resume flights to start his own search..to call off a search for a plane after 3 months sounds about right..so thats when sam started his search..

I think the way that it works out is that the video Sam hacked could in theory be from before the crash, it didn't mention the return of oceanic, it was just an Oceanic marketing video.

The website on Sam's computer does have a link to the press release that we can't go to. It could be that the press release listed on the site on his computer is from after the crash and it is stating that Oceanic is ceasing operations.

Now the website that we can goto has the press release stating that Oceanic is returning to business.

I believe that find815 takes place in December 2004 after the fail safe key has been turned.

When find815.com updated Tuesday the webpage about the Black Rock didn't show up for me. After reading the emails and such I looked around on the site and clicked on the arrow keys of Sam's phone. Nothing happened, but when I checked the browser again I noticed there was a new webpage called Sunda Stories. I highly doubt that me playing with the arrow keys had anything to do with finding this webpage. Nevertheless, here are three screens of the page and one of my out-of-whack progress report.

I don't know if this is new or not but when i read about there being a new Black Rock webpage on Sam's Computer i signed onto Find815.com but it wasn't there, instead there was a new webpage called 'Sunda Stories'. Is this new or anything?

Sorry. Here are some pictures of it.http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Exotic_Getaway/sundastories01.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Exotic_Getaway/sundastories02.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Exotic_Getaway/sundastories03.jpgSorry for wasting your time if this is old news, i just don';t remember anyone posting about it ><

has there beeen any kind of date or timeline for sam adventure? How long after the plane crash do we think this is taking place? It wouldn't be just a few days, but how long do we think, a few months (like three, so roughly same time as on the island)or a year or more?

hey guys. not sure this is the right place but here it goes anyway.i think we can conclude with some confidence that the reason the Black Rock ended up on the middle of the LOST island is because of the tsunami caused by the eruption of the Krakatoa volcano in Indonesia.The new Black Rock website says that its final voyage was from Indonesia in the 1880s and the Krakatoa volcano erupted in 1883 so it makes sense.We still dont know why "it was heading east rather than west" but thats another matter...what do u guys think about all this?

I'm not sure where to post this but... Does anyone else suddenly have things listed as 'incomplete' for chapter one that you did complete? Mine is one email and the game. I know I had all greens before but now suddenly they are red?Anyone else have this issue?

mine isn't doing that, but i did see a post on another site, from someonewith the same problem...a lot of people are getting qwerky behavior from thesite...i'd suggest reboot,reload and if that doesn't work search the blog,know i saw a post on site for load, glitch issues...good luck ;)

OK, this game is really funny, but why all these errors from the productions? And I'm not talking about the "freezing" or "not loading" site, but the errors in posting the new things (like today, with the Black Rock, or some emails in the past days).. Is this an idea made very quickly, something like: "ok, no chance to make the new 8 episodes, let's give our fans something new"?The timeline, also, doesn't work really fine, in my opinion. Too many incongruences: I can't imagine how Sam waited for 3 years before doing his personal researches for his girlfriend. And if this is happening in 2004 (as I believe: in Sunda Trench web page all the informations about tsunami and 2006 were deleted), why all the connections with 2007/2008 (oceanic airlines' site and billboards hacked)?Should we stay still with our minds and think only about playing? Yeah, maybe.. But LOST guys know how we are, and how we can be disappointed after all the fun..

the crash was 9/04...the stock exchange #'s from the chapter 1 video are from 3/06(before they were changed to *the* numbers)...the billboards/sitesare late '07 and 1/08...and i saw a theory Sam will arrive with thefreighter on the island in the premier!

After 7 months of NOTHING!

If the time-line for this ARG, were never explained in the show, I would still not be disappointed!

I really hope Darlton are at striking right now...reading us and LAUGHING THEIR COLLECTIVE ASSES OFF! ;)

Yeah, we are giving them a lot of hard work.."How can we pretend this is a real news?""Let's add some stock exchange!""Ok, where can I find it?""No problem, I've an old recording of a news show before the superbowl"

BAM!And then we arrived. ahah!

Ok, I'm not against the Strike (I'M WITH THE WRITERS!) and I'm not against the guys that are doing the "html" part of this game.. but I'm finding it just a little bit....hastily done.. Like a student who didn't study his lesson very well.. but he reached the goal, in a way or another..But I appreciate it! And if I found something strange it's really because I know (and love) J.J. Darlton and all the other guys...

At least one of the sites was registered by the html production co. 4/07...

Gregg Nation @ Fuselage 5-6-07,on the topic of ARG2, "Apparently it's been difficult finding sponsors for it." - as in they were scouting sponsors at some time before May...

Lostpedia,"At Comic Con 2007, it was confirmed by the writing team that there would be no Lost Experience during the Season 3-4 hiatus, but that it was "looking good" for continuation in some way during next year's hiatus instead." - like the way they denied one then worded that 'next year'...

They worked on this for awhile.

IMHO the 'mistakes'(early email, website release then disappearing, hidden frame pics, ect.) are really a shout out to the hardcore Lost fans. It gets the clue info released early on the web quick to online 'Losties', without 'spoiling' the game for the casual viewer/player...

I'm sorry, but if they are working on this for such a long time... well... don't know what to think.

But I can't believe they are doing what you wrote about the mistakes.. c'mon.. something is too "mistaky" to be only a shout out to the hardcore fans.. that would be an optimistic vision of their ("the html guys") errors..

I agree, it seems like this is being done at half staff (No joke meant by that, because we all know the writers are striking so they likely are half staff) and they didn't realize we'd flood the system. That's obvious by the crash of the server the other night.

Although I'm seriously concerned... are JJ and CC included in this? It seems to be giving away WAY to much information, and I just can't believe they'd allow so much with three season left. (The location of the plane/island? SERIOUSLY? That's MAJOR!)

The more we see, though, the more sure I am that Sam will be on the freighter that arrives Ep1S4.

Oh, and about Talbot... While the guys do look similar that play each role, I don't think they are the same. Brothers maybe? Ideas?

in the hacked video theres no mention of resuming flights..just a link to a press release to announce it..so to me this is an old add that sam has hacked..the game is taking place in same timeframe as the show..i think?

the crash was 9/04...the stock exchange #'s from the chapter 1 video are from 01/06 or 3/06(before they were changed to *the* numbers)...the billboards/sitesare late '07 and 1/08...and i saw a theory Sam will arrive with thefreighter, on the island, in the premier!

It's also my understanding that these, dates/sequence of events, don't jibe with the 1st ARG.

Thanks. Got that. I had to do it twice before it would recognize I had the others. After you get the new clue from abc.com and plug it back in, is there anything else to do? Do we just wait another 45 hours?

What i cant figure out is that in the message from Tracie during the game on triva of the Black Rock she had all this info on it, but the email mesage she wrote to Sam said she couldnt find anything on it. Hmmm.

Oscar Talbot is the guy from the boat on find815.com. His name is an anagram for Bast Locator. Bast is the Egyptian Cat Goddess that has... dun dun dun...... FOUR TOES! This with the fact that there are hieroglyphics in the hatch... I think this is a big clue that means something.

'nother question wasn't there a mention of a Van Eck somewhere? If so, this is very interestinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreakingprovides a mechanism for some crazy stuff (michael 'chatting' with 'walt')

**POSSIBLE SPOILER** just an idea but if Van Eck was mentioned Sam's laptop's privacy may be at risk **END SPOILER**

I was looking at Penny's phone number and my friend thought we should try it in Google Earth... If you put it in as 0.2079460893 it takes you to an area that is just to the left of Sao Tome. When my friend Googled the name Sao Tome, it told us that it was Portuguese for Saint Thomas. Just thought it was interesting seeing as we're following the story of a man called Sam Thomas. Also it appears to be near to Equatorial Guinea and we thought it might have some relevence as they've been talking about Africa and such in the videos.

Anyone else getting an incorrect clue word from the ABC site? I got 423 Cheyne Walk. I've tried putting it exactly like that, changing it to no caps, no spaces, anything. Not working. I saw on Dark's site that it's supposed to be Cheyenne, not Cheyne. Anyone else have this problem?

hey i have been away for the past week and i was wondering if u could put up some kind of recap of the FIND 815. i dont know wat any of this stuff means in this section and i really wanna know wat it all means. If you could put some kind of recap that would be great. thanks

ok, ok.. so, now what's the justification for this change from "cheyenne" to "cheyne"?another error? or was just fun stuff for the hardcore fans?come on, now it's really unmistakable: something is not working..